1769. July 10. Gordons Testimony. “By particular verbal Directions, from Lee, a few
Hours before sailing, I proceeded for Guadaloupe, and because Lee told me, that R.
Hooper had orderd Captn. Power to Martineco, &c. After trying to get to Guadaloupe
and could not, I thought it best to try for Martineco. My Written orders to proceed
to Martineco or any other Island.”3

2. That is, Lee's receipt to Crowningshield for “fifty pounds he underwrote ... and costs
of court.” This document, as well as the sailing orders and protest, extracts of which
follow, are in SF 131988.

3. This is a substantially accurate extract of Gordon's deposition in Bancroft v. Lee.
See No. 10, note 3215. Closing quotation marks have been supplied. As to Hooper, see No. 10, note 258. The files of the Crowningshield case contain his voucher for his expenses as a witness,
as well as his order for insurance upon the schooner Dove, Thomas Power master, “to Martineco and from thence to any and all the Leeward Islands
to Windward of Sambreo.” SF 131857.

4. See the deposition of the mate, George Gordon, sworn in court, Nov. 1769, substantially
concurring with the master's testimony. SF 131988.